For more than twenty years, I have imaged an inquiry into the location of the individual in the social fabric. From 1989, this reflection was present in several site-specific installation works. My early 1990’s writing and visual works interrogated personal notions of place. In 1996, I created a site-specific installation work in an apartment kitchen where I considered the possibility of reading domestic space as a semi-permeable membrane where the demarcations of private and public spaces become blurred. Through drawings and journal work, Le boulevard, begun in 2004, considers time slowed as an intimacy of the pedestrian with the urban environment of the boulevard.
Since 1996, and with continuing engagement, I have been exploring the strength of imaging nests, pods and diagrams of hearts. Landscape of Reconciliation, the title given to this extended body of works, references the Modernist issue of isolation and alienation from an oblique angle filled with colour, curiosity and even some humour. A reconciled landscape is a place where differences have been made compatible. Unlike compromise, this landscape can tell many stories simultaneously from a variety of emotional states. In Landscape of Reconciliation, a diagrammatic heart becomes an expression of an overlap of self with other and offers a personal idea of considered love or of shared space.
